Your kids are going to love playing "let's make dinner" alongside you — and you're going to love how affordable this set up is. It's as simple as painting the steps black, drawing on a stove top, and adding some knobs on the front to get the "burners" going.

This stool is the perfect size (and price!) for a messy art area. You can let your kids go to town with markers or paint without worrying about them getting color on it. Hey, if they do spill it'll probably only make the stool more awesome!

When you have so many children's books you don't know what to do with 'em, going vertical is the only way. But to make sure your kids (steady ones, that is) can still reach their reads, give this stool a cute polka dots update and a "library ladder" title.

Need a place to rest drinks in the living room? Or perhaps a spot to showcase your succulent collection? This stool is just the right height for it all. Plus, the plain wood lets you paint it to match the color palette of your room with ease.

Have you ever had your kid ask for a play toy out of the blue that you just don't have? Well this stool is basically a blank slate for creativity. Here, one mom flipped it on its side and used a little brown paper to transform it into a car.

Put your extra reads you haven't had time to flip through on this nifty stool that — when not being used to reach high places — can be two shelves for things you don't want to be tossed into the recycling.

Sometimes you just need to distract your kids when you have chores to do around the house. We get it. Lucky for you, this stool is the perfect size for a child to slip through and use as a mini table (and, um, we kinda want an adult-sized one, too).

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